WINTER FILM SCREENINGS AT DIVA CENTER
110 W. Broadway, Eugene
542-344-3482
What makes film screenings at the DIVA Center unique? Our films are projected in an intimate 60 seat screening room and are hosted either by a visiting filmmaker or a cinema enthusiast who facilitates thought provoking audience discussion after each film. Come and join Eugene's growing community of film and video enthusiast. Free evening parking is available in the nearby Broadway Place garage at 255 W Broadway. Also, check out our Winter Film and Video Workshops for those interested in screenwriting, planning and production. Our DIVA Events Calendar lists all other Center-based activities for the visual and time-based arts.
Sunday, January 6 BLUE (1993) Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
Time: 1:00pm
Admission: Free
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Blue, the first film in Kieslowski's trilogy, tells the story of Julie who loses her husband, a composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is manifested in Julie's attempt to start life anew free of personal commitments, belongings grief and love. Hosted by Thomas Blank.
Sunday, January 6 WHITE (1994) Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
Time: 4:00pm
Admission: Free
~ The second film in the Kieslowski's trilogy portrays Karol who marries Domininque and moves to Paris. The marriage breaks down and they divorce, forcing Karol into the life of a metro beggar and eventually back to Poland. However he never forgets Dominique. Hosted by Thomas Blank.
Sunday, January 6 RED (1994) Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: Free
~ Final Kieslowski film in the trilogy is about Valentine a young model living in Geneva who meets a retired judge who spies on his neighbors' phone calls, not for money but to feed his cynicism. Hosted by Thomas Blank.
Friday, January 11 Monster Camp (2007) With guest producer Aaron Douglas
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: $5 Student/member $3
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A glimpse into the world of live-action role-playing that examines the lives of die-hard live action role-playing gamers at NERO International in Seattle. It is a world of fantasy, chivalry, and imagination if only for one weekend a month. Q&A with Aaron Douglas.
Friday, January 18 Birddog (1999) Directed by Kelley Baker.
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: $5 Student/member $3
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Harv Beckman, is a used car salesman in a trashy part of town who accidentally comes in to possession of a rare 1948 Kaiser automobile, which leads to some disturbing revelations about the facts behind the 1948 Vanport, Oregon flood which destroyed an entire city. Q&A with Kelley Baker
Sunday, January 20 Walking Life (2001) Directed by Richard Linklaer
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: Free
~ Experimental animation enhances the existential philosophical journey of a young man who floats through encounters with succession of eccentrics and passionate thinkers, all the while uncertain whether he's conscious or dreaming. The resulting ethereal conversation makes for an innovative film that is by turns droll, disturbing and provocative. Hosted by Steve Poizat-Newcomb.
Sunday, February 3 Le Cercle Rouge (1970) directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
Time: 1:00pm
Admission: Free
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Corey, a thief, is released from prison on the same day that Vogel, a murderer, escapes from the custody of the patient Mattei, a cat-loving police superintendent. Corey enlists Vogel and an ex-police sharpshooter, Jansen, in a jewel heist. Hosted by Thomas Blank.
Sunday, February 3 Le Samourai (1967) Jean-Pierre Melville
Time: 4:00pm
Admission: Free
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Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi fail and more and more he gets driven into a corner. Hosted by Thomas Blank
Sunday, February 3 Army of Shadows (1969) Jean-Pierre Melville
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: Free
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This movie shows us rigorously and austerely the everyday of the French Resistance: their solitude, their fears, their relationships, the arrests, the forwarding of orders and their carrying out. Hosted by Thomas Blank
Friday, February 8 Star Trek: The Next Generation "Yesterday's Enterprise"
7:00 pm
Admission: $5 Student/Member $3.
Sponsor: Second Friday Film Forum.
~ While on a routine mission, the USS Enterprise discovers a bizarre rift in space, which reveals an Enterprise from the past. Both ships are now on an alternate time line where the Federation is in the midst of a bloody war with the Klingons. This episode will be introduced by guest screen co-writer Eric A. Stillwell and followed by a Q&A.
Sunday, February 17 The Holy Mountain (1973) directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Time: 7:00 pm
Admission: Free
Sponsor: Art House Films and Conversation
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Jodorowsky's bizarre, grotesque, and mystical allegory tells the story of a Christ-like figure's quest for immortality. The protagonist is joined on his journey by a cohort of wealthy powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar system, and an alchemist with an assistant as they seek to displace the gods that live on the holy mountain. Hosted by Steve Poizant-Newcomb.
Sunday, March 2 Jou Dou (1990) directed by Zhang Yimou
Time: 1:00pm
Admission: Free
Sponsor: Liveliest Art: Great Directors Series
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A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Hosted by Thomas Blank.
Sunday, March 2 Raise the Red Lantern (1991) directed by Zhang Yimou
Time: 4:00pm
Admission Free
Sponsor: Liveliest Art: Great Directors Series
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After her father's death, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family who already has three wives. The competition between the wives is tough, as their master's attention carries power, status and privilege. Hosted by Thomas Blank.
Sunday, March 2 To Live (1994) directed by Zhang Yimou
Time: 7:00pm
Admission Free
Sponsor: Liveliest Art: Great Directors Series
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Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. They raise a family and survive, managing "to live" from the 40's to the 70's in this epic, but personal, story of life through an amazing period. Hosted by Thomas Blank.
Friday, March 14 Women, Media and Rebellion in Oaxaca (2007) directed by Gabriela Martinez
Time: 7:00
Admission: $5 Student/Member $3.
Sponsor: Second Friday Film Forum
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This documentary examines the key role played by Oaxacan women in the social struggle against the Governor of the State of Oaxaca and the neo-liberal politics and anti-human right forces he represents. Film director and Q&A follow the screening. Read Article about film and director. Q&A with Gabriela Martinez
Sunday, March 16 Tears of the Black Tiger (2000) directed by Wisit Sasanatieng
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: Free
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This Thai cult film blends genres of the musical, western, and romantic tearjerker in a fresh and original way that is part homage and part parody. Shot in outrageously pastel colors with elaborate sets and aggressive acting styles, this film gives a unique glimpse of one director's cross-cultural interpretation of western film traditions. Hosted by Steve Poizant-Newcomb.
Interested in film and video production? Check out our Winter Film and Video Workshops.
